# South Carolina

* Data were obtained from the South Carolina Election Commission directly by email

* The original `pdf` files are in the `original` folder

* Attempts to transcribe the original `pdf` files automatically using Able2Extract failed. A member of the research team manually typed their contents into a structured data format.

* The file `sc_cleaned.csv` in the `ready` folder is the result of that manual transcription.

* In Allendale county, votes are reported from the precinct Ulmer. In that precinct, the auditors wrote in the first page of the audit form a number of votes for each candidate that is off by dozens of votes from the audit results. However, as seen in other forms from other counties, the auditors were usually only manually auditing in-person election day votes (though there are signals that some counties did audit other modes). In this case, they appear to have written the total number of votes by all vote modes on the first page. As a partial explanation, they included the poll total receipt from two days before, election day itself, which would only have included in-person election day votes cast, and the vote totals stated on this receipt exactly matched the audited vote totals for both candidates. So the original vote count here should be the one on the last page, which exactly matches the audited vote count, with the specification that this is an audit of only in-person election day votes.
